It is an image that had awakened the old demons of cycling. A yellow jersey excluded by his team, in the middle of the night, when the final victory in the 2007 Tour de France awaited him four days later. Six years of lying later, Michael Rasmussen confessed.
Since then, he confides, without detour, on his life before, never regretting having doped. Now a consultant for a Danish newspaper, the ex-ban tells about this system, the excesses and his life today, thus trying to be rehabilitated in an environment still embarrassed by his presence.
“Yes, I doped but I was also a runner”
Michael, what is your life like now, fifteen years after your exclusion from the Tour?
“I am a man who becomes happy again. I…